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Boston Tea Party

Colonists in Boston boarded three ships and destroyed their cargo of East India Company tea in the harbour, in protest at the Tea Act, which had given the Company a privileged route into the American market while retaining the duty colonists objected to. The action was against monopoly and taxation, not against tea as such — smuggled Dutch tea was widely drunk in the colonies. Britain's punitive response accelerated the breach that became the American Revolutionary War. It is the clearest early demonstration that tea had become a political instrument rather than merely a beverage.

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Recorded on Tea

  1. Tea buried in the Han Yangling mausoleum
  2. Tea-for-horse exchange between China and Tibet
  3. Tea first shipped to Europe by sea
  4. Parliament bans the use of printed calicoes
  5. Qing trade confined to Canton
  6. Boston Tea Party
  7. Commutation Act cuts British tea duty
  8. Robert Bruce shown tea growing in Assam
  9. East India Company's China monopoly ends; Tea Committee founded
  10. The Opium Wars
  11. First Assam tea auctioned in London
  12. Lin Zexu destroys confiscated opium at Humen
  13. Treaty of Nanking
  14. Robert Fortune removes tea plants and tea makers from China
  15. The Great Exhibition
  16. The 1908 Olympic marathon fixes 26 miles 385 yards
  17. The first London Marathon

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